XmlDocument does not release the Xml file

[Fahad Ashfaque]

Hello,
I am finding trouble while using XmlDocument class to parse my xml documents
reside in file system.

The problem is, I have a function that loads the XmlDocument and the
function is called many times during the execution context; the first call
goes ok but the second call throws the exception that 'File is being used by
another process'.

I am writing the function this way.

public void ReadXml(string path)
{
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(path);

XmlNode node = xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("/Employee[sal > 30]");
blah blah blah

}
any help on this would be sincerely appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Fahad Ashfaque

[Glenn]

Fahad

I've not seen XmlDocument.Load cause a lock to occur before. I've only seen
it during a Save() on a multi-user app writing XML logs.

Is it possible something else in your application is fighting for contention
over the file. Are you reading or writing from streams in your application?

Glenn

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Hello,
I am finding trouble while using XmlDocument class to parse my xml documents reside in file system.

The problem is, I have a function that loads the XmlDocument and the
function is called many times during the execution context; the first call
goes ok but the second call throws the exception that 'File is being used by another process'.

I am writing the function this way.

public void ReadXml(string path)
{
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(path);

XmlNode node = xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("/Employee[sal > 30]");
blah blah blah

}
any help on this would be sincerely appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Fahad Ashfaque